Tag: Schools

Who spent this week gluing and sewing for their child’s annual school Easter Bonnet Parade? Did you once attend Orelia Primary? Can you help us identify the staff and students at The Hub, c1970s? Remember, it’s not too late to submit your own Easter celebration photographs to our Local History PicStory Competition! Kwinana Public Library will be closed for the Easter long weekend. Wishing you all … Continue reading Archivist Amnesia (we blame the chocolate) – Can you help?

School’s back in session! Was it your little one’s first day at kindy? Or maybe first day in high school? Maybe you have an adult child who took great delight in sleeping in (yet again) yesterday morning? To honour this first week of term, we bring you an album of Kwinana classroom memories throughout the decades. As always, if you can help put a name … Continue reading Hey! Teachers!

Long before Kwinana was planned, a limestone block school was built in 1865 in what was then known as East Rockingham and which later became Kwinana. It stood on the north east junction of Mandurah Road and Wellard Road and consisted of one school room and one room for the teacher’s quarters. On Sundays Tom Smirk, a ticket of leave man, also used the school … Continue reading East Rockingham School -an impressive early building